My face has been tucked in more times than a bedsheet at the Holiday Inn.
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
Appealing to his [Einstein's] way of expressing himself in theological terms, I said: If God had wanted to put everything into the universe from the beginning, He would have created a universe without change, without organisms and evolution, and without man and man's experience of change. But he seems to have thought that a live universe with events unexpected even by Himself would be more interesting than a dead one.
There is no history, only histories.
We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.
Simple statements are to be prized more highly than less simple ones because they tell us more; because their empirical content is greater; and because they are better testable.
Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.
Justin Di Cioccio led a jazz program at Music and Art, but there was no jazz in Performing Arts. After they joined, it became Laguardia School of Arts.
The world doesn't need any more sadness than it's already got.
I believe in America. I believe in her purpose and her promise. I believe her best days have not yet been lived. I believe her greatest deeds are reserved for the generations to come.
I was two when we left Indiana, and I don't really remember it that well.